Earliest known evidence of human fire-making discovered in the UK

Humans struck sparks from flint and pyrite (Craig Williams/ The Trustees of the British Museum/PA) -

The earliest known evidence of fire-making by humans has been discovered in the UK and dates back more than 400,000 years, research suggests.

The find, at a disused clay pit near Barnham, Suffolk, between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds, indicates humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously known.